Book of Donmon Teith

Poetry inspired by the Leitrim Observer, with prose and poetry from Leitrim writing groups, plus Brian Leyden, DBC Pierre, Alice Lyons, Vincent Woods, Belinda M

""The dance of language, of knowing and not knowing that death is near, of sharing and hiding, of anger and tenderness, make Monica Corish's poems worthy additi

Ireland in the mid-1800s was primarily a population of peasants, forced to live on a single, moderately nutritious crop: potatoes. Suddenly, in 1846, an unknown

The Great Famine of 1845-52 was the most decisive event in the history of modern Ireland. In a country of eight million people, the Famine caused the death of a

Here Ireland's premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine examines the most lethal natural disaster to strike Europ